I pulled into the driveway and parked the car. My buddy Shawn and I got out and headed to the door.
“So how long has it been since you’ve seen her?” he asked.
“I think about 5 years,” I replied. “But we have emailed once in a while between now and then.”
“Well, if she is as hot as you say she was then....” Shawn let his words trail off.
He didn’t have to finish his sentence. He knew how I had felt about Kristy since the first time I had laid eyes on her back in high school. Hell, he had heard enough out of me the whole car ride. Luckily for him, it was not a far trip.
Shawn and I were stopping to visit Kristy for the night as we were heading down to New York for a hockey game. She lived in New Jersey, but it was close enough for me. She had asked me if I wanted to hang out with her and a friend or two that night. The game was not until the next evening, so Shawn and I were all for it....as though I needed convincing.
I rang the doorbell, nervously holding my breath. Kristy had been my secret crush all through high school....her long blonde hair, dark eyebrows, great smile....she was really beautiful. Unfortunately for me, I was always her “best friend.” That and the fact I was a complete chickenshit about girls. College had changed that, though, and now I was a lot more outgoing and confident. Not as confident as Shawn, mind you. Picture a young Billy Dee Williams. OK, maybe not such a good idea. But his Colt .45 commercials are a sort of caricature of Shawn. Smooth and sure of himself.
Kristy answered the door and she was still stunning. Her hair was shorter and not as wavy as it was in school. But she still had the athletic body and, I noticed as she turned to shake Shawn’s hand, a phenomenal ass.
“Oh my god, Mike, it is so good to see you!” she said. “It has been WAY too long.”
I smiled and agreed with her. We put our stuff away in her spare bedroom and all sat down in the living room. She asked us if we felt like doing anything in particular.
“Not really. Whatever you had in mind works for us,” Shawn said.
“OK, let me see what my friends are up to,” Kristy said and went to use the phone.
Shawn raised his eyebrows at me when she had left. “You weren’t kidding, man. She is hot!”
I nodded and tried not to think too much about it. I knew tonight wouldn’t turn into anything except lots of hugs and hearing how good it was to see me again.
A couple of minutes later, she came back and said, “OK, Sarah and Kate will come out with us, but Alex and Heather can’t.” Since we knew none of these people, that meant not a whole hell of a lot.
We headed out to dinner, which was good. Sarah turned out to be a nice-looking girl. Black hair that she had in a ponytail and what appeared to be a nice figure. She was rather quiet and it turned out she had a headache. “I’m not sure how long I will be able to make it tonight, but Kristy was so excited to see you guys that I really wanted to join you all.” Very nice of her, I thought. I felt kind of bad, that she was suffering because of Shawn and me though and told her, getting a laugh out of Kate, who was absolutely adorable. Thin, but with curves in all the right places, she had a devilish look in her eyes and we found out, a rather straightforward and wicked sense of humor.
“She was just hoping you’d turn out to be Brad Pitt and Wesley Snipes,” Kate said.
“Too bad we’re not,” I said laughing.